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Rishi Sunak and his cronies have helped spread an epidemic of disinformation in this campaign – it’s a political way of life for the right

Exclusive: In a wide-ranging interview with The Independent, former soldier Mike Tapp said he wants to help Sir Keir Starmer tackle the small boats crisis and end the chaos at the Port of Dover

Exclusive: The shadow health secretary vows to be ‘a shop steward for patients’ as he warns: ‘The NHS is not the envy of the world’

Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will take on his old party in Islington North

Keir Hardie and many others were inspired by their religion

In latest Opinium poll, only 16% say accepting rightwing Tory MP’s defection was the right move – against 33% who see it as a mistake

Natalie Elphicke is the third Conservative MP to defect to Labour since the last election – but the first Tory rightwinger. She had enthusiastically backed Brexit, and was a member of the eurosceptic European Research Group of Conservative MPs. She has attacked Labour’s “softness on immigration” and harshly criticised trade…

Letters: Readers remain unconvinced about how the rightwing MP can help the party’s ‘national renewal’

If even the Tory right-winger sees political capital in opposing the two-child benefit cap, Keir Starmer needs to think again, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff